Backstage Mastermind gained 130+ new members in 3 weeks — without social media posting. How? By being active around the Skool ecosystem, collaborating with others and creating opportunities to get discovered. Because growth doesn't have to mean posting more and hoping someone notices you. It can mean creating your own mix of visibility opportunities: 🎤 Interviews — share your expertise and let new audiences discover you. 🎁 Bundles — put your free resources in front of people looking for what you offer. 🤝 Collaborations — build relationships that introduce you to new audiences. 🎙️ Live speaking opportunities — share what you know, build trust and connect with people who need your expertise. 📣 Affiliate partnerships — help others discover valuable communities and offers while creating opportunities to earn. One activity alone may not change much. But combine different ways to get seen, build relationships and make it easy for people to take the next step — and you create your own growth boost. 🔥 That's what Backstage Mastermind is about. These are the kinds of visibility and collaboration opportunities you can explore inside Backstage, with free ways to participate and additional benefits for Premium members. Stop relying on one channel. Start building your own mix. 👉 Be your own Growth Boost 👇 What's your next move: interviews, bundles, collaborations, speaking or affiliate partnerships?

Don't be a thought leader. I think everyone who tried to be active there was annoyed by this rule at least once. But with time, I got to appreciate it. Why? Because trying to act like a thought leader/expert was not doing me any favors. The problem with making "definitive guides", "tip compilations", "special secrets" and that kind of stuff is that by doing that I was positioning myself as an expert who has everythinng figured out on my niche. And by taking that position I'm competing with the top players, who unlike me, have much bigger numbers and overwelming social proof to backup their claims. So how do you not do that? You stop being afraid of not being seen as the expert. You position yourself as someone who is figuring stuff out and invite others to figure it out with you. How does that look? Instead of "How to do X", "The defininitive guide to Y", you make "I tried do do X, here is what happened", "My analysis of...", "My reaction to..." "Here is a story about how I...". Being experimental and honest about your journey, while admiting that you're trying to get better and learn something everyday will make you a much more relatable and interesting content creator and community owner. And that's what I try to do on both my communities. Click on my profile if you want to check them out.

Most of us have spent years asking: “What can I do to make money?” So we look outside ourselves. What business should I start? What’s trending? What are people buying? What skill should I learn? But what if there was a better question: “𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐦?” You’ve spent decades collecting skills, interests, experiences, mistakes, strange little talents, things you love doing, things people naturally ask you about, and things you know so well you don’t even realize they’re valuable. That’s not random clutter. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. The problem is that we’ve been trained to separate everything. Work goes over here. Hobbies go over there. Life experience gets filed under “the past.” And the weird stuff? Hide that in the closet. 😄 What if... Instead of trying to squeeze yourself into somebody else’s business model, you built something around YOU? That’s what I want to explore tomorrow. I’m not promising to give you “𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫.” But I might offer you a 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐦 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 that could help you see what’s been sitting under your nose the whole time. Thursday, Oct. 8th 12:00 PM EST / 9 AM Pacific / 6 PM UTC Come with a question. You might leave with a possibility. 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

Joy can be such a powerful compass for anyone trying to figure out what comes next, and really, for anyone who feels like something is missing. Think about the last time you got so caught up in something that you lost track of time. You were not chasing joy in that moment. You were doing something that fit you, and the joy showed up by itself. That is the part most of us get backwards. We go looking for joy as if it were the goal, when it is really what the life you want produces, whether you plan for it or not. The life is the North Star. Joy is how you know you are pointed at it. 🎈 That is how it went for me. Years ago I stood outside a mall watching a man play the saxophone, and then I went and bought a balloon starter kit. That kit turned into eighteen years of twisting balloons, and somewhere along the way people started calling me the Giggle Therapist. And just to be transparent, I never set out to find joy, and I never set out to make people laugh for a living. I set out to live a life I wanted to live. The laughing, theirs and mine, came along with it. So if the joy has gone missing for you, it does not mean something is wrong with you. It may mean you have been steering by somebody else's star. This week, notice where joy shows up without being invited. That is your direction. If you find it challenging to locate it, download this FREE tool to help you connect with it.

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